We’ve seen race car drivers scare the crap out of their own mothers before, but let’s be honest, it’s easy to scare your mother. Bring home one little completely inconsequential deadly tropical disease, and she’s rushing you off to the hospital. But jaded old driving instructors? That’s serious business. »3/26/15 10:33pm Thursday 10:33pm

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is a fiesty firebrand, and a largely respected non-voting delegate for her constituents in Washington, DC. She also doesn’t appear to understand the concept of angled parking, hitting another car in the process, and it makes you sad for the 77-year old more than anything else. »3/26/15 9:31am Thursday 9:31am

The Porsche Cayman GT4 comes with what appears to be an additional foot pedal next to the ordinary gas and brake pedals. Not only that, there's sort of strange lever rising out between the seats. What are these mysterious features? Automotive journalist Chris Harris got to the bottom of the matter. »3/09/15 1:15pm 3/09/15 1:15pm

Traffic Jam Jimmy of WBFF Fox 45 Baltimore, BALTIMORE'S NEWS LEADER, is a traffic man of the people. And you know that, because when weather reporter Candace Dold tosses to him for a traffic update, he's going through the McDonald's Drive-Thru. And weirder yet, the station just keeps going with it. »3/06/15 5:20pm 3/06/15 5:20pm

Before they show off the new CTS-V and ATS-V at the Geneva Motor Show this week, Cadillac decided to make a quick trip through Germany for some impromptu trolling, as documented on Cadillac Europe's Twitter feed. »3/02/15 11:49am 3/02/15 11:49am

Oh man, this is short but great. Outside the Pheasant Pub in Drogheda County, Ireland, some jackass was trying to break into a car (looks like a Mercedes) by flinging stones and things at the window, to no avail. So the guy tries a nice, heavy brick. And the brick takes care of the situation. »3/01/15 1:00pm 3/01/15 1:00pm

Bored with your cushy, overpowered luxury sedan? Do modern "dynamic" designs fail to live up to your expectations of dynamism? Have you grown weary of the endless hordes of dull, anonymous, unoriginal cars you see everywhere? That's because the wrong people are running car companies. These kids should be the ones…»2/24/15 5:02pm 2/24/15 5:02pm

What, you're going to get out there with a brush and scraper? That's so uncivilized. Use the Russian method to get snow off your car. Those guys would know, I hear they get snow occasionally. »2/20/15 12:22pm 2/20/15 12:22pm

We do not, absolutely DO NOT condone such reckless endangerment as ghost riding your whip, here at Jalopnik. But if you are going to do it, you might as well do it properly.»2/17/15 12:18pm 2/17/15 12:18pm

Italy is a magical place, full of Italians and Piaggio Apes. And if you have no idea what a Piaggio Ape is, that is terrible. Because it's a delightful little three-wheeled pickup, and when fully loaded every sad little attempt to get up a hill is the silliest goddamn thing I've seen all morning. Until it flips. »2/05/15 10:35am 2/05/15 10:35am

According to the BBC, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has started replacing the state's fleet with white cars last September, and now everybody in the country is being advised to forget about black paint as well, or else. Or else what? Exactly. »1/28/15 9:51am 1/28/15 9:51am

A source in BMW management mentioned at the Rolex 24 at Daytona today that they have one piece of advice for new employees: "Don't do anything that would end up on Jalopnik." »1/24/15 5:09pm 1/24/15 5:09pm

Can you ever really know what happens to your car after you hand over the keys to a valet? Maybe they'll park it carefully and go about the rest of their day; maybe they'll go hoon it into the ground. Or maybe they'll use it to make a bizarre, rambling YouTube "review" that ultimately costs them their job.»1/23/15 2:10pm 1/23/15 2:10pm